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Joan Metge
Dame Alice Joan Metge (born 21 February 1930) is a New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer. Biography Metge was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Roskill on 21 February 1930, the daughter of Alice Mary Metge (née Rigg) and Cedric Leslie Metge. She was educated at Matamata District High School and Epsom Girls' Grammar School. She went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Master of Arts with first-class honours in 1952, and the London School of Economics where she earned her PhD in 1958. As of 2004, she continued to advance peace initiatives via her work as a member of the Waitangi National Trust Board, a conference presenter, adviser, and as a mentor to mediators and conflict management practitioners. A scholar on Māori topics, she has been recognised for promoting cross-cultural awareness and has published a number of books and articles in her career. She has likened the relationship among the people of New Zealand to "a rope fm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is also home to the biggest ethnic Polynesian population in the world. The Māori-language name for Auckland is ', meaning "Tāmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Rangi Hiroa Medal
The Te Rangi Hiroa Medal is a social sciences award given by the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. The medal was established in 1996 and is named in memory of Te Rangi Hīroa, also known as Sir Peter Buck, a New Zealand medical practitioner, anthropologist and Director of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii in the first half of the 20th century. It was initially granted annually. It is currently a biennial award. It is awarded for work in one of four disciplines: historical approaches to societal transformation and change; current issues in cultural diversity and cohesion; social and economic policy and development; and medical anthropology (this last discipline was added in 2006). It was formerly awarded for each discipline in rotation; starting in 2017, it is awarded in any of the four disciplines in each round. Recipients are: *1997: Joan Metge *1998: not awarded *1999: Jack Vowles *2000: not awarded *2001: Erik Newland Olssen *2003: Greta Regina Aroha Yates-Smith *2005: Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Pitama
Suzanne Georgina Pitama is a New Zealand academic, is Māori, of Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Whare descent and as of 2020 is a full professor at the University of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand. Early life Pitama was educated at Wairoa College, and qualified in psychology at University of Auckland. She then undertook postgraduate and doctoral studies at Massey University and the University of Otago. Academic career Pitama was already a registered clinical psychologist before she completed the first-ever PhD undertaken in indigenous medical education, submitting her thesis, ''"As natural as learning pathology": the design, implementation and impact of indigenous health curricula within medical schools'', at the University of Otago in 2013. Pitama was promoted to full professor from February 2020. In December 2021, she was appointed Dean and Head of Campus at the University of Otago, Christchurch, effective February 2022. Pitama's research focuses on indigenous experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart McNaughton
Stuart may refer to: Names *Stuart (name), a given name and surname (and list of people with the name) Automobile * Stuart (automobile) Places Australia Generally *Stuart Highway, connecting South Australia and the Northern Territory Northern Territory *Stuart, the former name for Alice Springs (changed 1933) * Stuart Park, an inner city suburb of Darwin *Central Mount Stuart, a mountain peak Queensland *Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Mount Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville *Mount Stuart (Queensland), a mountain South Australia * Stuart, South Australia, a locality in the Mid Murray Council *Electoral district of Stuart, a state electoral district * Hundred of Stuart, a cadastral unit Canada *Stuart Channel, a strait in the Gulf of Georgia region of British Columbia United Kingdom *Castle Stuart United States *Stuart, Florida *Stuart, Iowa *Stuart, Nebraska *Stuart, Oklahoma *Stuart, Virginia *Stuart Township, Holt County, Nebraska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Jones
Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin New Zealand politician 1863–1867; great granddaughter of Admiral William Oswald Story of the British Royal Navy. She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones Education and career Jones studied at Auckland for her Doctor of Education, entitled "'At School I've Got a Chance...': social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school". In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal. She was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017. In the 2019 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith (née Mead; born 1950) was a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New ZealandEminent Education Leader Appointed to Top Post at Waikato University 9 March 2007 and is now at . The daughter of , she affiliate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Holmes (linguist)
Janet Holmes (born 17 May 1947) is a New Zealand sociolinguist. Her research interests include language and gender, language in the workplace, and New Zealand English. Academic career After obtaining an MPhil at the University of Leeds, Holmes moved to Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, later becoming a naturalised New Zealander in 1975. She published a textbook ''Introduction to Sociolinguistics'' in 1992 which has run to five editions. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and won the Dame Joan Metge Medal in 2012. She is now an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Holmes has published widely on an array of topics. In 1996, she established the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project, which is an ongoing study of communication formats occurring in the workplace, which examines “small talk, humour, management strategies, directives, and leadership in a wide range of New Zealand workplace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bedford (geographer)
Richard Dodgshun Bedford (born 3 January 1945), also known as Dick Bedford, is emeritus professor in human geography at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He was the president of the Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2015 to 2018. Early life Bedford was born in 1945 in Takapuna. His parents were Beryl ( Sanders) and John Dodgshun Bedford. His grandfather was the academic and member of parliament Harry Bedford. He received his primary school education in East Taieri, Te Puke, Te Kauwhata, and Campbells Bay. He then attended Rangitoto College before completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and a Master of Arts in 1967 at the University of Auckland. The title of his master's thesis was ''Resettlement: solution to economic and social problems in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony''. He gained his PhD from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1972, with the title of his doctoral thesis as ''Mobility in transition: an analysis of population movement in the New H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Poulton
Richie Graham Poulton (born October 1962) is a New Zealand psychologist and the director of the University of Otago's Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit, which runs the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (also known as the Dunedin Study). He is also a professor of psychology at the University of Otago, the 2007 founder and co-director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research,,the founder in 2011 of the Graduate Longitudinal Study, New Zealand, and the chief science adviser of the Ministry of Social Development in the New Zealand government. Early life Poulton was born in October 1962 in Christchurch. His father was a financier, his mother was a "stay-at-home mum".. He was one of two sons. For Poulton's father's work, the family moved from Christchurch to Wellington, and then to Auckland. Poulton's last four years of school were at Auckland_Grammar_School. Although he enjoyed the academic parts of his schooling, he enjoyed spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Lynne Howden-Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago, Wellington, and the director of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities. Education Howden-Chapman studied at the University of Auckland and was awarded a PhD in 1987. Her doctoral thesis was titled ''An evaluation of three treatment programmes for alcoholism: an experimental study with six- and eighteen-month follow-ups''. Career Howden-Chapman started her career in secondary-school teaching, before moving to clinical psychology, and then public health. She has conducted a number of high-profile randomised control trials into various aspects of housing and health, in the process helping to build the evidence base for the later New Zealand-wide insulation programme. Howden-Chapman's Healthy Housing group conducted an analysis of the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme which showed that overall it "will have a net benefit of $951 million dollars, and a highly favourable benef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Lennon
Diana Rosemary Lennon (1949 – 15 May 2018) was a New Zealand academic and pediatrician, specialising in infectious diseases, and was a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career Lennon graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Otago in 1972. She was awarded FRACP in Pediatrics in 1978. After a short research position at the University of Auckland, Lennon trained further in infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1982 she returned to New Zealand as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, with a half-time role as a specialist pediatrician at the Auckland Hospital Board. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991, and Professor of Population Child and Youth Health in 1996. Lennon was a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Princess Mary Hospital, Starship Hospital and Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, and provided consultant services throughout the country. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Te Apārangi
The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi) is an independent, statutory not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities. History The Royal Society was founded in 1867 as the New Zealand Institute, a successor to the New Zealand Society, which had been founded by Sir George Grey in 1851. The Institute, established by the New Zealand Institute Act 1867, was an apex organisation in science, with the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, and the Westland Naturalists' and Acclimatization Society as constituents. It later included the Otago Institute and other similar organisations. The Colonial Museum (later to become the Dominion Museum and then the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa), which had been established two years earlier, in 1865, was granted to the New Zealand Institute. Publishing transactions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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